Garlic and Lard

Garlic and Lard
Number	2688
Broadcast Date	FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Episode Length	21:56
Hosts	Peter Wells
Guests	Hannah Francis

The first day 6 episode from Australia, with Peter Wells and Hannah Francis.

Guest

• Hannah Francis
  • Digital Life

Headlines

• The chips are down for Moore’s law

Nature.com is reporting that next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge it will no longer pursue Moore's law, the principle that has powered chip design since the 1960s. As everyone listening would know, Moore's law states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip will double every two years or so — which has generally meant that the chip's performance will, too. In recent years, the rise of mobile chipsets has seen Moore's Law had already begin to falter, thanks to the heat that is unavoidably generated when more and more silicon circuitry is jammed into the same small area. Is this the end of an era or the dawn of quantum computing?

• With "MyShake" App, Your Phone Feels Earthquakes and Automatically Warns Scientists

Popular Mechanics reports on a new Android app available today from the Google Play store, which can be used to detect earthquakes. The app is smart enough to ignore bumps and shakes from your commute, but will be able to detect the telltale rumblings of an earthquake forming, effectively turning mobile phones into a distributed early warning system. The new Android app is called MyShake, and was developed by a team of seismologists and computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. Developers promise the app is not a battery killer, the app uses about the same amount of battery as a phone in idle mode. So Android users, go download it today!

• Warning: Bug in Adobe Creative Cloud deletes Mac user data without warning

Ars Technica reports on a bug in the latest version of Adobe Creative Cloud, that deletes user's data from the root directory of a Mac. Popular back up software Backblaze first noticed the problem, after it saw a large spike in users needing to restore data from the service. An Adobe spokeswoman issued a beautifully understated response that read: "We are aware that some customers have experienced this issue and we are investigating in order to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. We are stopping the distribution of the update until the issue has been resolved."

• 4-inch iPhone 5se & iPad Air 3 planned to go on sale March 18th

Murk Gurman of 9to5 Mac is reporting his sources tell him the new iPhone 5se and iPad Air 3 will go on sale March 18th. The rumored iPhone 5se is a 4 inch version of the iPhone with the internals of an iPhone 6, while the Air 3 is rumored to include support for the Apple Pencil. Both devices, which we should again point out are just rumors at this stage, appear to target users who think the iPhone 6 and the iPad Pro are just too damn big.

• YouTube has acquired BandPage to help creators monetize their channels

The Next Web reports that YouTube has acquired the company BandPage. BandPage helps musicians connect with fans and promote music, mainly through the creation of dynamic Band pages on Facebook, so it's interesting that Google and Youtube are behind the acquisition. Disclaimer: My wife doesn't work for YouTube.

Submitted by BuzzOutLoud

• Apple is replacing USB-C cables that shipped with early MacBooks

Engadget reports that the summer of cable recalls continues. This time Apple is recalling USB C Cables that shipped with the 12" Macbook sold between April and June 2015. Unlike the recent recalls of Apple and Microsoft Surface power adapters, the faulty USB C cable poses no threat of fire or electrical shock, instead the cables may fail to charge. Full details of the recall can be found in the show notes.

Submitted by KAPT_Kipper

• Dallas Buyers Club abandons fight against Aussie pirates

And earlier this week, Hannah Francis of Fairfax wrote Dallas Buyer's Club LLC decided not to appeal the ruling against it from August last year,effectively ending the long running court case. Dallas Buyer's Club LLC lawyer, Michael Bradley said "The problem isn't going away; Australia is still one of the most prominent jurisdictions for infringement, and rights holders will continue to feel that they're losing a lot of money, so I expect they'll continue to look for ways of deterring that behavior." A lot has been made of the strategy of Dallas Buyers Club LLC, in targeted the third largest ISP in the country, but I'm more interested in why Hollywood would choose an arthouse movie to spearhead its anti-piracy campaign.

Discussion

• Mobile World Congress

Pick of the Day

• Call Recorder for Skype - The Skype Audio/Video HD Call Recording Solution for Mac - Ecamm Network

The Ecamm call recorder for Skype. If you're hearing this right now, then Ecamm call recorder worked. It's a great little program, you can set it to auto record, set quality of the recording, etc.

Submitted by Peter

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Preceded by: "The Oxen of the Cloud"

Garlic and Lard

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